Romania 2

Listen to Romania 2, a 27-year-old woman from Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 27

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 1973

PLACE OF BIRTH: Sibiu, Transylvania, Romania

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Romanian/white

OCCUPATION: doctor

EDUCATION: university

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS: N/A

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: Michael Bruckmeuller

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 06/03/2000

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF SCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

Well, I think I was about, uh [exhales] four years old in the kin-kindergarten, and I used to play a lot with guns and machines, you know, all sort of, not dolls and, and once, in – in one day, in the kindergarten, um, the, um, teacher said, “OK, all the girls on the right, all the boys on the left. We are – we gonna have some games here,” and, you know. And I went with the boys. And she said, “What are you doin’? You are a girl. You – you’re not supposed to say – s-stay with – with the boys,” and I said, “Oh no, I’m a boy,” and she ask, “Oh, how come? You have earrings.” Because here only girls wear, you know. And I said, “No. I’m a modern boy. I wear earrings.” So that’s it. Everybody laughed, of course. And my mother was, “Oh god. How could you do that?”

TRANSCRIBED BY: Jon Hunter

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): 25/03/2008

PHONETIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH: N/A

TRANSCRIBED BY: N/A

DATE OF TRANSCRIPTION (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

SCHOLARLY COMMENTARY: N/A

COMMENTARY BY: N/A

DATE OF COMMENTARY (DD/MM/YYYY): N/A

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